As much as I dislike Unity, I commend the Ubuntu team and Shuttleworth for having the guts to try to innovate and bring the desktop forward (pretty much the exact same can be said of KDE4 and GNOME3). Shuttleworth has just announced yet another significant change for Ubuntu, and it's all about replacing the menu with a search interface dubbed the HUD.

I'm sure I'll be modded down massively for this, but I don't care. Ubuntu has become Shuttleworth's toy.
Never mind that there are people out there trying to do work with it, and having to learn a new interface every time Shuttleworth has one of his "bright ideas".

What I love about Mint is that the devs LISTEN to the users, and in Mint, the USER comes first, not the devs. That is how it should be.